Virginia Woolf Objects, Things, Matter by Laci Mattison - 9781399517003

Virginia Woolf Objects, Things, MatterAuthor(s): Laci Mattison\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399517003, 978-1399517003\nSynopsis\nVirginia Woolfs deep and creative interest in materiality is not only illuminated by but precedes current theorisations of objects, things and matter among them, new materialism, object-oriented ontology and thing theory. Through both critical and creative engagements, contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of these theoretical accounts: what new readings they afford; what they say that Woolf has already shown us; and how Woolf goes beyond or cant be fully captured by these ideas. This volume thus gathers various, sometimes even contradictory, approaches on the topic; in turn, it emphasises congruences and tensions in theoretical, literary and cultural interpretations of Woolfs material investments. What emerges in Virginia Woolf Objects, Things.